03/10/1993 02:07 PM Senate JUD

  SENATOR TAYLOR introduced  HB 90  (1993 REVISOR'S BILL)  and                 
  asked the revisor, DAVID DIERDORFF, to explain the changes.                  
                                                                               
  MR.DIERDORFF explained it was the shortest revisor's bill in                 
  the history of the state by the longest tenured revisor.  He                 
  mentioned  he  had previously  sent  two amendments  for the                 
  bill,  A1, which adds  new sections 8,  9, 17,  18, and some                 
  language to the repealer.                                                    
                                                                               
  MR. DIERDORFF  explained A1 removed some obsolete references                 
  in the statute  to old coordinating councils  required under                 
  federal law  years  ago in  dealing  with some  health  care                 
  issues.  The federal  law has been changed and  the councils                 
  are  no  longer  in effect.    He  said  the Departments  of                 
  Revenue, Health and Social Services, and Law  have looked at                 
  the changes and all signed off on the changes.                               
                                                                               
  MR. DIERDORFF noted the another amendment, A2, rewrites part                 
  of the Insurance Code  which didn't make sense  and violated                 
  some of the basic rules about statute drafting.  He reasoned                 
  the Insurance Code  was a monster bill written  by insurance                 
                                                                               
                                                                               
  lawyers, but doesn't  make any substantive change.   Omitted                 
  in the new Section 13 was  the word "weighting factors," and                 
  he referenced Section 12 for  identical wording.  There  was                 
  some general discussion of the  changes with explanations by                 
  MR. DIERDORFF.   SENATOR  TAYLOR also  explained to  SENATOR                 
  LITTLE that any substantive changes had  to be in a separate                 
  bill.                                                                        
                                                                               
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  SENATOR  LITTLE  noted a  change on  page  2, line  24 which                 
  referred  to Anchor Point  in her  district.   MR. DIERDORFF                 
  explained it marked the  entrance to Kachemak Bay on  the SW                 
  coast  of the  Kenai  Peninsula, and  the  reference was  to                 
  correct an error in the survey.                                              
                                                                               
  SENATOR  LITTLE  moved  to  adopt  Amendment  #1.    Without                 
  objections, so ordered.                                                      
                                                                               
  SENATOR  LITTLE  moved  to adopt  Amendment  #2  as amended.                 
  Without objections, so ordered.                                              
                                                                               
  MR. DIERDORFF reviewed the sectional analysis ...                            
                                                                               
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  as removing obsolete material, fixing  errors or oversights,                 
  and adding  language in Section  12 dealing with  the ethics                 
  committee.                                                                   
                                                                               
  SENATOR JACKO moved  to pass  SENATE CS FOR  HOUSE BILL  NO.                 
  90(JUD) (1993 REVISOR'S BILL) from committee with individual                 
  recommendations.  Without objections, so ordered.